Obituary of Mrs. Emily Maher Miller,   Tensas Parish, Louisiana     
From The Tensas Gazette  1943, written by Josiah Scott
Transcribed as written and submitted by Edith Ziegler

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Gone Home
     Never perhaps in our long experience in country journalism has a 
sadder task devolved upon us than is now our unhappy duty, as we attempt
in our feeble way, to pay just tribute to the true, worth and merit of a
good woman, a noble wife and mother, who, after a useful and well-spent
life, a life devoted to her God, her family and her fellow-being, has
now passed from labor to rest!  Mrs. Emily Maher Miller, relict of the 
late David Franklin Miller, prominent life-long resident of Tensas, after
a lingering and painful illness, borne throughout with Christian for-
titude, happy to be deemed worthy to suffer for His name's sake, laid
down the burden of life on Sunday night, at nine-twenty o"clock, July
4th. May her noble soul have that peace that passeth understanding is
the prayer of her every friend.
     Mrs. Emily Maher Miller was born at Natchez on October 26, 1883,
youngest of two daughters born to Frederick J.Maher and Emily Lyle Maher.
Receiving her education at Natchez, when yet quite young, she married
David F. Miller and came to Tensas to make her home with him on his
plantation know as "Richland". Here he built a commodious and comfortable
home, which in time became widely known as a haven of rest and recreation
for all friends from indeed the four corners, as Mr. and Mrs. Miller 
were never happier than when entertaining guests.
     To their union eleven children were born-six daughters and five sons,
viz: Lieut. Emily Miller, W.AAC, Dallas, Texas; Misses France Miller,
Elizabeth Miller, Helen Drake Miller and Agnes Miller, of Richland plan-
tation, Tensas Parish, and Mrs Hugh Roberson(Mary Lyle Miller) St. Joseph;
David F. Miller, Jr., B. U. Miller, Dalton Watson Miller and Ed Miller
who lives on the family homestead, Richland plantation and Fred Miller,
who makes his home in St. Joseph. All children were with their mother
when the end came. Mrs. Miller is survived by one sister, Mrs. Stewart
Seelye, of New Orleams.
     Raised a devout Catholic deceased ever clung religiously to the 
Ancient Faith and was true to her church duties. Christened by Father
Macrschadt of St. Mary's Cathedral, Natchez, later made Bishop of the
Indian Territory, she made her First Communion at an early age. Coming
to Tensas to make her home, upon the building of the Church at Water-
proof, St Francis of Assessi, she transferred her membership there, and,
as said, attended her church duties regularly and was a liberal contrib-
utor to its financial well-being.
     Funeral services were held at Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral at 10 
o'clock on Tuesday morning, interment following in the city cemetery,
where she rests along side of her husband, who passed away in August
1941.
     Descended from a long and honored line, this good wife and mother
leaves to posterity a noble name and precious record of true Christian
womanhood. Certainly none knew her but to love her, none spake her name 
but to praise.
     The out-pouring of friends at her funeral, especially from Tensas 
parish, where she had lived for more than 40 years, despite gas shortage in 
these perilous wartimes, made a procession nearly a mile long, while
flowers, mute evidence of love and respect, beggard description in
beauty and loveliness. There, beside the man she loved, and to whom she
bore a large family of unusually bright children, each worthy of the 
parents to whom they owe existence, she sleeps peacefully.
     May God's purest angels guard her slumber is the prayer of all who
knew our dear Emmie Miller.